| Abstract
Research indicates
that information and communication technologies have the
ability to provide a rich learning environment in a flexible,
effective, and interactive manner provided careful design
and implementation approaches are adopted. This article
examines the Korea National Open University's (KNOU) four
recent technology initiatives and the major design and
implementation strategies of those initiatives, and evaluates
those strategies with regards to the development of distance
education. KNOU's experiments have clearly proven that
even though there can be little doubt that technology
has had a considerable influence in the development of
distance education, it is instructional design, not technology,
that is at the center of quality distance education. In
addition to instructional design, instructors' facilitating
skills and learners' self-directed study skills are also
important in improving the effectiveness of distance education.[ABSTRACT
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